Donald Forrester Brown

Donald Forrester Brown VC was a New Zealand soldier of World War I who was a posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Browns Victoria Cross was the second won by a New Zealander during the war, and was the first awarded for actions on the Western Front.

Brown was born onFebruary 1890 in Dunedin, New Zealand. After attending schools in Dunedin and Oamaru, he took up farming. When World War I broke out, he carried on farming for a year but then sold his farm and volunteered for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force onOctober 1915.

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